India and US to Cooperate in Space Exploration 153
p1234 writes "India and the US plan to cooperate in the exploration and use of outer space. India's first mission to the moon, Chandrayaan-1, is scheduled to be launched later this year. This is the culmination of long-term planning on both sides of the Atlantic. Apart from India's moon mission, Nair said a probe of Mars by India was very much on the agenda.'Our scientific community would like to see what new things we can find. It is not just for the sake of sending a probe to Mars. Yes, we have an agenda by 2012, by then we should have a Mars mission.'"
Re:mutual benefit? (Score:2, Insightful)
You must not be a US engineer.
This is geopolitics 101 (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Call centers in space... (Score:5, Insightful)
This is Machiavellian geopolitics. Having a friend on the Asian continent will be useful much like having Israel for a friend in the Mid-east.
Jokes (Score:5, Insightful)
It really makes me wonder where India borders the Atlantic...
A likely indication the summary was done with some US-style geography classes
Re:GOD DAMNIT (Score:4, Insightful)
I think the anti-offshoring sentiment is more an anti-corporation movement than an anti-Indian movement. I've seen in detail how corporate lobbyists manipulate the facts to create a "shortage". The bad guys are really the corporate lobbyists who hype free-trade and bribe politicians with campaign donations. We are not a democracy if lobbyists control politicians to such a degree.
Re:This is geopolitics 101 (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Wrong country to learn from (Score:5, Insightful)
Do you have any idea what you talking about, what the value of near-Earth space efforts have been? Billions upon billions in economic returns (hell, weather monitoring alone is worth the price of admission.) Space research is hardly wasted. Could all of us do better at managing our world? Sure. But shutting down space programs isn't the way to do that.
Re:mutual benefit? (Score:5, Insightful)
Satellites are not launched everyday, moon missions still more infrequently. The usual way to obtain access to space for whatever reasons is often to provide some payload to a party who's going to launch a vehicle anyway. Not too long ago, India launched a military satellite for Israel. What India is providing here, is the excellent satellite launching infrastructure it has due to an active space program. The US space program was always geared towards manned-missions.
Let me end this rant by saying that developments in all fields do not have to reflect the trends in IT (where India does provide a cheap back-office). It's time people got off the idea that the US always provides the money, the knowledge, while other countries are sources of cheap brainless workers. Appreciate the achievements of others.
Both sides of the atlantic? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Call centers in space... (Score:5, Insightful)
comments here remind me of blue collar miners (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Call centers in space... (Score:3, Insightful)
They are islamic and they do have a bomb already.
Re:Do NOT expect a civilized society in India... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Call centers in space... (Score:4, Insightful)